Responsibility for health

McMillan, John

doi:10.1136/medethics-2019-105830

J Med Ethics

2019

DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105830

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Responsibility for health

John McMillan

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“…Sometimes, however, we cannot decide between patients on the basis of such criteria. In cases like this, a number of ethicists advocate the use of responsibility as a criterion ( Segall 2010 ; McMillan 2019 ; Cappelen & Norheim 2005 ).…”

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The Myth of Zero-Sum Responsibility: Towards Scaffolded Responsibility for Health

Levy,

Savulescu

2023

J. Moral Philos.

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Some people argue that the distribution of medical resources should be sensitive to agents’ responsibility for their ill-health. In contrast, others point to the social determinants of health to argue that the collective agents that control the conditions in which agents act should bear responsibility. To a large degree, this is a debate in which those who hold individuals responsible currently have the upper hand: warranted appeals to individual responsibility effectively block allocation of any significant degree of responsibility to collective agents. We suggest that a different understanding of individual responsibility might lead to a fairer allocation of blame. Scaffolded agency is individual agency exercised in a context in which opportunities and affordances are structured by others. Appeals to scaffolded agency at once recognize the role of the individual and of the collective agents who have put the scaffolds in place.

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The Myth of Zero-Sum Responsibility: Towards Scaffolded Responsibility for Health

Levy,

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2023

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The ‘Expiry Problem’ of broad consent for biobank research - And why a meta consent model solves it

Ploug

Holm

2020

J Med Ethics

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In this response to Neil Manson’s latest intervention in our debate about the best consent model for biobank research we show, contra Manson that the ‘expiry problem’ that affects broad consent models because of changes over time in methods, purposes, types of data used and governance structures is a real and significant problem. We further show that our preferred implementation of meta consent as a national consent platform solves this problem and is not subject to the cost and burden objections that Manson raises.

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Responsibility for health

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The Myth of Zero-Sum Responsibility: Towards Scaffolded Responsibility for Health

The Myth of Zero-Sum Responsibility: Towards Scaffolded Responsibility for Health

The ‘Expiry Problem’ of broad consent for biobank research - And why a meta consent model solves it

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